and hit two people. he intentionally crashed into the entrance of the store and the car landed itself on a beer display and witnesses say the driver got out of the car grabbed a blunt object and starting hitting people. at least one person and several employees were hurt and three were taken to the hospital in serious condition. workers are feeling uneasy this morning. >> i am shook up, it has never happened and i am a little shook up but i think it will be okay. the whole team is shook up and we will stay close and get through the day. >> the driver is described as 33 years old and he appeared to be under the influence of drugs. he faces assault and he was taken to the hospital and it is

unknown what his condition is. the other employee tries to get the door open and they will probably get a lot of curious people asking what happened whoever didn't watch the news. but a lot of them, after speaking to them they are curious to find out how their co-workers are doing and i will have an update for you later this morning. janine de la vega, ktvu channel 2 morning news. a woman was killed in a crash on highway 1 in bodega bay overnight. the chp said her car went off the road in sonoma county shortly before 9:30 last night. it runs alongside the road and firefighters say the woman died at the scene but her friends made it out okay. >> upon arrival, three people were out of the vehicle and one deceased was out. >> two people were taken to the

hospital with minor injuries and they have not said whether alcohol was involved and it was raining at the time of the crash. one person was injured after arraign related injury in lafayette. our cameras brought two badly damaged cars and there are reports that a third car, the one that caused the crash left the scene. highway patrol says people need to slow down when it is raining. san francisco police are searching for a gunman who shot two people on a muni bus. paul chambers is in san francisco right now and you've got a description of the suspect, paul? good morning, police have very little to go on and that's why they are asking for help. they did sends us an e-mail and i can tell you shooting happened here on mission street and the bus was stationery here

on missing street. one victim was shot and one was a 25-year-old female shot in the torso and the other 25-year- old male shot in the leg. it is unclear about their injuries however he is a latino male with thin build and he was wearing a black t-shirt and he was seen leaving the area on foot. if you know anything about this incident you are asked to call san francisco police. live in san francisco, i am paul chambers, ktvu channel 2 morning news. starting this morning, police will be cracking down on drivers caught texting or holding a phone. these are the live pictures of the emoryville highway 80 but it is one of the places police will be on alert looking for distracted drivers all throughout this month. they will be handing out

tickets and they have been dealing for years. the ticket is at least $159. traveling on novato to petaluma and the project started two years ago. crews are widening by adding carpool lanes. the project costs $50 million and more than half is coming from a 2006 voter approved transportation bond and groundbreaking begins at noon. be careful, sal is back and there has been a fatal crash, where is this? >> it's on 780 military west, we told you about it last time, military west, we had some reports that this could have

been -- the person may have died from the accident or may have been having some sort of medical emergency. one person is confirmed dead and that means this is going to be a long-term closure, eastbound 780 at military west and we have alternates and probably the best alternate would be to use the carquinez bridge and again east 780 military west, it is a fatal crash and it will put more pressure on some of the other roads and again the roads are wet and it is not going to be a great commute and the wet weather will add to that. it looks like 880 went bound and cars are beginning to slow down in oakland. and we are getting a little bit

of a commute, and metering lights go on and you need to give yourself some extra time, there could be a stalled vehicle there as well. again not a great commute and an extra few minutes is needed. let's go to steve. there is some rain and pockets of it near the oakland airport and also we are looking at darker green heavier than the lighter green and that does to pacifica, south san francisco and over towards marin county and you can see san pablo bay and hit and miss towards santa clara valley and some decent rain totals, 4.5 and that's not touchuppy. same for oakland and the numbers are in for san francisco be it was a grand

total of two or three inches and normal should be 12 and a quarter and that was only 19% of normal and the old record was back in 1850 and the record was 3.20 and back in december, we had it very good and it was raining then, and we have a little bit more on the way but for those three months, it is the dryest ever in san francisco. one system will be with us today and be out of here tonight and one will be racing across from the islands. possible showers and more thunder showers, more scattered after the morning rain, 60s for temperatures and i would not take too much. if there is any rain we rebound and it looks like more rain

moves in towards the middle of the week. they are looking to receive bankruptcy protection. it is the first to challenge peninsular law. they -- pension law. they are looking to pay cal pensions. it will more than likely be appealed and their biggest debt is their pension obligations. starting today it will notify doctors who are now required to tell patients with dense tissue identified through a mammogram that they have a higher risk for breast cancer and that there are other tests to take. those in favor say the law will encourage women to get further testing. a new app is helping people report code violations.

now the new app is called up to code and that's up, the number two and code, all one word. this app is designed for complaints relating to housing safety and help. it includes no heat or no hot water and by the way being the app is free and will launch today. he is expected of killing 12 people in a colorado movie theater. it comes after prosecutor reject him after they want the death penalty. and at the mcarthur maze westbound, either is stalled vehicle or minor accident, nevertheless we have slow traffic coming up to the mcarthur maze, and we have more traffic coming up stay tuned.

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holmes is -- lethal injection. they will take up the new gun control measures and some say this will prevent mentally disturbed people from getting guns and some say this will infringes on second -- infringe on second amendment rights. mark kelly says it is common- sense. >> any bill that does not include a universal background check is a mistake. we can still make progress without going too far. >> congress comes back from their spring recess on april 8th, so far no vote has been scheduled at this point. there are escalating threats from north korea and south korea as they look for war. south korea will not tolerate

any provocative moves. kyla campbell just got back from the pentagon. >> reporter: they say they are taking these threats very seriously and they are in close contact with their south koreaian allies. they have joined military exercises and meanwhile military leaders met with kim jong il and this comes after they had entered into a state of war with south korea and also said the u.s. mainland is vulnerable -- vulnerable to an attack. now u.s. officials say they might be using its natural uraniumian supplies to build a weapon and they had rockets aimed ready to fire and some u.s. leaders said they would not reach and the rocket leaders had the ability to travel to the continental u.s.

and north korea is going after thousands stationed in asia. we will tell you how they plan to stay a step ahead when i see you next hour, kyla campbell ktvu channel 2 morning news. mexican drug cartels are showing up in suburbs and now they seem to be moving away from the border and into the areas of the south and east. they are suspected of running drug distribution areas in at least nine border states. coming up, many texans are on edge after a district attorney and his wife were found dead inside their home. flags are flying at half staff for mike and cynthia mcclellan and they were found shot to death on saturday. it is the second targeted

attack. so far no arrests have been made and they have joined local law enforcement in the investigation. the roads are wet, lots of problems, what is happening in the mcarthur maze? >> we have lots of incidents and we will go first -- in fact i have so many incidents but i think we will go first to the mcarthur maze and we will look at the car which is blocking one of the lanes on 880 westbound right there at the mcarthur maze, they are trying to get traffic cleared up after it has been backed up. they are moverring the camera over to west 80 and we can do this on the air because there is another car on 880 just up the road somewhere on this stretch. there is another injury accident and pardon us as we do live television as he is looking, westbound he is moving all the way over, there is

another crash in this backup and oakland fire is on the scene so it is in the shadow of this fire and look at all the slowed traffic, there have been several crashes along this stretch and the traffic is just terrible. traffic is at a standstill and if this is your commute you may not even get to the bay bridge because of all of these crashes and stalled vehicles. there is a backup as you get to the pay gate and this one is blocking both lanes and you will be out there for a bit. the alternate is 80, carquinez bridge to the westbound. back to you steve. some pretty good rain all the way to san ramon and pockets of more than just light

rain around piedmont and san leandro and to oakland and oakland airport, you can see it is moving towards emoryville and everything is coming up and coming up from the south and it is pushing and expanding, pretty steady rain, san francisco heading east bay north, 50s on the temperatures, oakland 56 degreesen our low is -- and our low is not going anywhere which means possibility of showers and it is late wednesday into thursday and our rainfall will be mainly steady rain and turning more scattered in the afternoon and the system has arrived after the dryest stretch, we get rain on april 1st, sun and clouds, possible rain showers to near 60 degrees, it will clear out, mostly wednesday takes us to early friday and maybe a cold

system and one dropping in on sunday. well the port of oakland may be coming up with more information on how it spends for online purchases. and we have two very special guests who are invited by the first lady to a very special event. and there are special crashes if you are not going anywhere, you may want to think about your options and we will help you with that coming up.

. this is from last year's easter egg roll and the first lady is there and more than 4 5,000 people are expected to join the president and this is a tradition which dates back 135 years and besides thing roll all day event, sports, and storytelling will be done that day. this is something we first told you about last october and there is expense reports done by the head of relations.

they bought imminent domains which sounds like they should belong to the long shore association. >> they are to interim or stop a protest that was coming, a social movement, you know we are just seeing they are not properties with release of funds -- >> they expected to be meeting with us for an on camera interview even though they have -- even though they have several workers they hired outside firms and that move came after our report discovered port officials spent a lot of money at strip clubs with our public money. it happens when the roads are wet, westbound 880 is a mess and we have had a couple of crashes and they have done a great job in getting them out of the way and the damage is done and it is backed up on 80

westbound all the way through berkeley. we had a stalled vehicle getting to the bay bridge, and sunole grade, we are looking good as you drive from pleasanton to fremont and not everything is bad. let's go to steve. thank you sir, we have rain moving through and we have picked it up with intensity and it's all the way to the peninsular and all the way out towards vacaville and interstate 880, look at that right over oakland heading towards berkeley and emoryville and stretching towards montclair, skyline boulevard, not too shabby, 60s to near 70 degrees and morning rain will give way to showers and another system, pam, dave? we have the battle of the

tallest buildings and last week ed lee joined other city officials and they broke ground which will include a building 170,000 feet high. still some san francisco builders are not backing down and they are planning to make a super structure which will be the clear winner. after weeks of silence, the san francisco symphony is getting ready to perform again. the tentative deal getting ready, bring the music back. wal-mart employees are relation and they started attacking people inside the store and we will tell you what

store employees are saying this morning. we have rain on our radar and we will tell you more coming up in about ten minutes.

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continue to follow breaking news out of venetia, a deadly accident. here is sal. we are putting it up on a map, military west, this was reported 25 minutes ago and they arrived there and found somebody laying in the lanes and this is eastbound trying to get to the concord area and then use the carquinez bridge and use south and avoid 780 eastbound because both lanes are closed and chp just told us they will be out there for a while with this investigation and there are a lot of fender benders with this wet weather, let's go back to the desk. we are getting word that the bad weather causing delays, you can see how wet the roads

are and airport is reporting delays on flights up to 58 minutes so if you have to fly call ahead before you get all of the n, just go to ktvu channel 2 morning news. a man crashed into a wal- mart store. this bizarre attack left a lot of customers just lucky to be alive. janine de la vega joins us with the details, you spoke with employees coming to work this morning, janine? >> reporter: i just spoke with the manager and they are very concerned and they will be offering council willing to anybody -- counseling to anybody who needs it. this is how the driver move in

and he took his car came up on the sidewalk, speeded past the vending mandatory evacuation and went into where the boards have been put up and once inside the driver started attacking people. it started at 1115 and witnesses said it was this red oldsmobile which hit them before speeding onto the sidewalk and crashing into the store. the car landed on top of a beer display and he got out of the car and grabbed a blunt object and starting hitting customers and workers. witnesses hold him down until officers arrested him. workers told us exactly what happened. >> i seen a rush much people running towards me and all i heard was begun, gun, gun so i was running really fast trying to get away. i opened the exit door so

everybody could get out. >> you heard from the employee and she said she heard gun, gun, gun and she thought it was other people inside shooting at the store and instead that was the sound of the car come crashing in and he appeared to be under the influence of drugs, possibly methamphetamine and nine people suffered injuries and three were taken to the hospital and two of them were in serious condition and one of the victims was an employee. again, a lot of these employees who are coming in this morning are very sane shows to -- anxious to hear how their co- worker is doing and we will get an update on their conditions and we are waiting to hear from police to get an identity all we know is he is believed to be around 33 or 34 years old. janine de la vega, ktvu channel

2 morning news. they are investigating a fire on a tour bus which backed up traffic for hours. luckily the bus was empty when it burst into flames and it happened right near redwood parkway. he got out after smelling smoke and the fire spread to nearby trees and then it started to threaten nearby homes. they were evacuated as a precaution. >> we ran and made an assault. >> that fire was put out before it was able to spread homes and that bus driver was treated for smoke inhalation. a bus ride ended in gunfire, two people were shot in muni and paul chambers has a description of the suspect, paul? >> reporter: good morning, pam, police have very little to go on and that's why they are asking the public for their

help about the shooting which happened on a muni bus. it happened just before 10:00 and there was a shooting on a mission bus line and the bus was stationery here when the two victims were shot. one was a 25-year-old female who was slot in the torso, the other was a mail shot in the leg and it is unclear but police have released this information and he is a latino female wearing a black beanie. police do not have any motive in this casen if you have any information call police, paul chambers, ktvu channel 2 morning news. police are investigating three homicides in just one day. here is what happened yesterday, easter sunday. first shooting was at 10:00

a.m. and the second one happened just after 4:00 on international boulevard and at 8:00 last night another shooting was reported at 70th street and hawley street. at the scene, a man was riding or walking with a bicycle before he was shot. they found several shell- casings right there on the sidewalk. that video now from the first shooting on 68th avenue, police were called to the scene, one man had been shot in his car and police had not given us any motive for suspect information in any of those three shootings in oakland. it is even more reason they are hoping to increase their police force and this week, they are set to review the costly plan. they are, woulding to increase staff levels from 611 officers

to 620 and they are reporting it will cost the city $67 million and tomorrow they will discuss the budget options. they are welcoming back one of their own as a fellow firefighter returns to duty. frank ryan is returning to work after suffering a heart attacken they are battling flames after he went into cardiac arrest. friends have suited him through an extensive recovery. they are paying some of the highest sales taxes in california. san mateo has a sales tax of 9% and residents in santa clara are paying 8-point 5% and sales tax in marin county is bumped up and they are also seeing

higher rates and the highest is in albany where people are paying 1.9% and it is a sales request coming in january 1st. we are just checking in with sal. >> that is right, we have a lot of problems, the wet whether is causing some trouble or it seems that way anyway. we have a big collision and big traffic problems, 780 military west, a fatal crash is there about an hour and two lanes are blocked towards the venetia bridge an alternate route is 84 eastbound and getting to that area of concord and venetia an area of concord and using it that way and they are trying not to go in either direction

but so far -- oops, let's get rid of this. traffic on the nimitz looks good but we have two collisionings northbound 1012 south -- 101 southbound and highway 101 at blossom hill road and both crashes involve a car that slipped off the roadway so that is what we are dealing with. we want to show you 80 dealing with a couple of problems and it is backed up well into richmond. we have big delay and it is backed up and some people are not even getting to the slow traffic. they are watching towards fairfield and traffic visit and -- travis and also in the mission district and it is said to be raining there as well and we have not had any train in

three months. embrace the rain, we are running out of time. here are some areas where it is light and we are seeing enhanced areas right back over towards san francisco and in the sunset district and raining north heading towards emoryville and berkeley and watch how it goes through when it is in the red, it just went right overheading towards vacaville and we have been mentioning that. the low has not left the area, it is not out of the building. rating up it does have a little more moisture and we are mostly cloudy very mild 50s on the temperatures and a mixed bag of clouds and we have shower activities and some of the rainfall totals, forestville, an inch and a half, a half inch

more than that, oakland a half inch, .06, it is generally about a quarter and you can see the rain over us now and there is a low up there with a possibility of thunder showers even though the dynamics are not as strong as they were over the weekend. we will have rain off and on, mostly cloudy and then clouding up again on thursday, rain thursday into friday, saturdays okay but maybe a cold system on thursday. they are looking to end their deal after a strike. musicians went on strike march 13th over disagreements about salaries and benefits. a 26 month contract still has to be ratified by the orchestra and the symphony board and it still can happen over the next few days.

many are happy to see the strike end and details will the proposed strike agreement will not be released until a deal is reached. they are accused of killing five members of one family and he is due in court today. we will tell you the very serious charges he is facing. >> and it is opening day for baseball, what bay area fans can expect as they begin the new season. good morning, highway 4, moderately heavy but we have a lot of traffic problems and we will have another update spread ahead.

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. all right, steve, welcome back, here is a look at some of the top stories at 6:46. today a crackdown on distracted drivers begins and police will pull you over if they see any drivers texting or talking on a handheld cell phone. they are handing out more than 60,000 tickets and this is live at fso.

san francisco international airport, right now they are reporting delays about 58 minutes of delays so if you have to catch a flight, just check your information before you head out to the airports. and in colorado, prosecutors are deciding whether to seek the death penalty against james holmes, he is accused of killing many people in that colorado airport and he is offering to plead guilty in exchange for taking the death penalty off the table. the man used of killing five members of his family is scheduled to come to court today. he will appear in a nevada courtroom facing multiple charges including dui. he is accused of rear-ending a van near mesquite which is 80 miles northeast of las vegas. four adults and a 14-year-old

girl were killed and two other family members were injured. time now 6:48, sal, where do you begin in you have horrible stuff happening in the commute this morning. >> that's right, this is the venetia bridge -- let's start again 780 eastbound military west, eastbound heading towards the bridge and the crash occurred about an hour ago military west and they are doing an investigation and it is a fatal crash. 880 westbound to highway local 4 to help you get back to the east and highway for the traffic is moving a long well. if you are watching at home, you can go to the twitter account and i will post some

alternate routes as well. i think people may be having trouble getting through because we had a mess on the east shore freeway because of some earlier problems. they are recovering a little bit but we had a couple of fender benders to start the morning off and we had traffic going well into richmond. traffic is lessening towards the san jose area and it is still solid towards oakland and back over to san francisco and we have a strong downpour at fairfield. it is kind much enhancing the rain line and the heaviest has been over oakland for the last hour or so and i heard some reports of standing water on 980 so slow down also on 880, back over to 13, this is headed towards the caldecott tunnel and it looks like it will pick

one intensity and it had to slow down with a couple of reports. 50s on the temperatures and the low has not accelerated out which means it is still in line for possibility of scattered showers and more showers, another system coming from the same path and it should be here late thursday and it does not have a lot of moisture with us. rain light to heavy under mostly cloudy skies and a mixed bag of sun and clouds and maybe a thunder showers and most of that occurred over the weekend and there is one more day of a possibility we have almost an inch of rain and vallejo picked up a half inch of rain and i did see two thirds in ben loehmann's. unfortunately we didn't get much rain at all and we have the dryest ever grand total.

normal is 12 and a quarter and only 19% of normal and the old mark was 3.2 back in 1851. the good news is we are coming in at 72% of normal for the year abu al-laith-libi that was the dryest stretch. 60 to near 70s. it looks like it cold system with -- 72% of the rain that was the dryest stretch and 60 to near 70s it looks like a cold system is coming in. they say they will delete all of its videos and added the

winner will run continuously in 2023 and we did check and you tube is still there. the wait is over today. opening day for major league baseball and brett anderson is the starting pitcher for the as during game time -- a's during game time. and opening against the dodgers and in san francisco, at&t will be open and there is a free viewing party today at the park. giants fans you are invited to go on over and watch the big screen and doors open at noontime. >> 6:52 brock block will be in the -- president barack obama will be in the bay area where his convenience are scheduled. and starting monday, we have some wet roads and we will tell you where the slow downs

and crashes are, stay tuned.

. people all over the bay area are talking about lightning, this was the last night at 7:45. a severe thunder form warning -- thunderstorm warning was

given just before that photo was taken. >> president barack obama is coming back to the bay area for some mid-term election fundraising. he will be in san francisco for a funds raiser at the mansion and then on thursday he will attend another fundraiser in atherton and both are private. he is raising money for the 2014 elections. coming up, sal is very business sane before you head out the door darbies i before you -- sal is very busy and before you head out you need to hear from him. >> westbound to eastbound 4 using the carquinez bridge, you can go to our twitter account which is posted and northbound 280, there is a report of an

injury crash blocking a couple of lanes and in san jose, we have a crash not one but two of them and also southbound 85 at blossom hill road. live pictures of the toll plaza, you can find the backup is about 15 to 20 minutes. let's go to steve. rain is light moderate to heavy up to travis and we have heavy pockets going over montclair, piedmont, emoryville and berkeley over towards the caldecott and there are a lot of reports on that stretch over towards fairfield and morning rain, 60s on the temperatures and possible thunder showers an extended has more coming up towards the end of the week, mornings on 2. two people were shot on a muni bus, what police are

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monday morning commute. a fatal crash in benicia has two lanes blocked and causing a big traffic jam. we'll be live on scene to tell you more. mother nature is not fooling around on april 1st. a lot of ancoming -- a lot of rain coming. >> reporter: a shooting last night on the muni bus has san francisco police asking for your help. we're live in san jose where a man is under arrest for attacking people inside a walmart. we'll tell you how employees are coping. "mornings on 2" starts now. well, good morning. welcome to "mornings on 2." i'm dave clark. >> i'm tori campbell. it's monday, april 1st. we want to go right to sal. a fatal accident. is it causing traffic delays? >> it sure is. this traffic accident happened

around 5:30 a.m. this morning. at military west, that's the commute direction heading toward the benicia bridge. the alternate route, stay on 80 if you are coming from vallejo and use highway 4 instead. a lot of people use 780 but this morning it would be better to use the carquinez bridge and use eastbound 4. traffic is kind of dicey driving true the area because of the wet weather. for more on the weather, let's go right to steve. our system is definitely producing pockets of moderate to heavy rain. it looks like it's heading out of the san jose area. it's parked itself over to oakland, lake merritt. things are calming down a little bit. also, on the peninsula, you can see, look at the areas of yellow. that's stretching from san ramon, oakland, highway 13, also 980. there's also been a really strong downpour which occurred over